{"id":10222,"date":"2016-01-21T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10222"},"modified":"2016-01-21T14:16:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:16:16","slug":"last-years-horror-cornucopia-suffering-in-style-im-at-first-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/01\/last-years-horror-cornucopia-suffering-in-style-im-at-first-things.html","title":{"rendered":"“Last Year’s Horror Cornucopia: Suffering in Style”: I’m at First Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

every Halloween is self-parody Halloween:<\/p>\n

Last night I watched The Final Girls<\/em>, Todd Strauss-Schulson\u2019s 2015 slasher parody about mourning. It\u2019s charming, touching, and mostly successful\u2014and a great example of the reasons 2015 specifically and the \u201910s generally have been such great years for horror fans.<\/p>\n

2015 was just a cornucopia of bloody fruit: the lush Gothic fantasy of Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Crimson Peak<\/em>, David Cronenberg\u2019s nihilistic satire\/poignant ghost story Maps to the Stars<\/em>, and Jemaine Clement and Taika Watiti\u2019s vampire roommate comedy What We Do in the Shadows<\/em>. There was Ana Lily Amirpour\u2019s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night<\/em>, a swoony, hazy black-and-white Iranian-Californian vampire disco noir romance\u2014that<\/i> happened. All of these movies were sublime, but even movies that were a bit more standard, like Austria\u2019s Goodnight Mommy<\/em>, often showed vivid visual sensibility and a deep emotional resonance.<\/p>\n

If the \u201980s were the decade of slashers, horror-comedy, and terrifying children\u2019s films, the \u201910s are shaping up to be a decade of sun-drenched heartache, featuring women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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